Example sentences of "that she would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imelda Marcos , widow of the former President Ferdinand Marcos who was overthrown in 1986 , said on Sept. 3 that she would return to face trial in the Philippines if the government agreed that her husband 's remains could eventually be reburied in his homeland . |
| 2 | Miranda wished devoutly that she would stop showing off , that she would behave … well , like other mothers . |
| 3 | But she also foresaw that very thing — I mean , she foresaw that she would go to save him . |
| 4 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 5 | It 's understandable that she would want to resume her acting career after having children . |
| 6 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 7 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 8 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 9 | Mr Trump 's attorney , Mr Jay Goldberg , said : ‘ He 's angry that she would choose to violate the agreement . |
| 10 | And he would guide her back to her room , cajoling , murmuring reassurance , trying to pretend that he was n't frightened , frightened that she would start to cry for her mother , that Miss Willard would appear , censorious and whining , complaining that she had to get her sleep , that the precarious little house . |
| 11 | In a reserved judgment Booth J. decided in the exercise of her discretion that she would decline to order the return of the children to Australia . |
| 12 | She wrote Ben a hasty reply saying that she would love to go with him , thank you very much , and posted it through his letter box almost immediately . |
| 13 | Paula says that she would love to have children but has n't yet found the right man to have children with . |
| 14 | But recently , fancying an off-the-peg suit for her 40th wedding anniversary party , Barbara realised that she would be so confused by clothes shopping that she would need to seek advice . |
| 15 | Both those cases involved blasphemies , Mrs Whitehouse felt , and therefore there was no question in her mind that she would become involved . |
| 16 | The fourth element that the plaintiff has to prove is that the acts done by her were done in reliance on or as a result of her belief that she would become entitled to the deceased 's property on his death … |
| 17 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 18 | And she admits that she would hate to live the kind of life he does — that of a frightened recluse . |
| 19 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 20 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 21 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 22 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 23 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 24 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 25 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 26 | The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) . |
| 27 | The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia . |
| 28 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 29 | Medical staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital did their utmost to try to save Mrs Loughran 's life but Mr Smith heard that at her age and with such extensive injuries it was very unlikely that she would have survived . |
| 30 | After an apparently unbreakable silence , Julia decided that she would have to say something else and so with considerable truth , she told him that she had missed him . |